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Lookup NU author(s): Joshua Karlsson, Dr Owen Woodford, Emeritus Professor Anthony Harriman
This is the authors' accepted manuscript of an article that has been published in its final definitive form by Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018.
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© 2018 The Royal Society of Chemistry and Owner Societies. Most quantitative fluorescence measurements report emission quantum yields by referring the integrated fluorescence profile to that of a well-known standard compound measured under carefully controlled conditions. This simple protocol works well provided an appropriate standard fluorophore is available and that the experimental conditions used for reference and unknown are closely comparable. Commercial fluorescence spectrophotometers tend to perform very well at wavelengths between 250 and 650 nm but are less responsive at longer wavelengths. There are no recognized emission standards for the far-red region. We now report fluorescence quantum yields for a series of commercially available cyanine dyes in methanol solution at room temperature. The compounds are selected to span the wavelength region from 600 to 850 nm, with absolute emission quantum yields being determined by thermal blooming spectrometry. Calibration of the instrument is made by reference to aluminium(iii) phthalocyanine tetrasulfonate and aza-BODIPY in methanol.
Author(s): Karlsson JKG, Woodford OJ, Mustroph H, Harriman A
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences
Year: 2018
Volume: 17
Issue: 1
Pages: 99-106
Print publication date: 01/01/2018
Online publication date: 04/12/2017
Acceptance date: 04/12/2017
Date deposited: 16/03/2018
ISSN (print): 1474-905X
ISSN (electronic): 1474-9092
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
URL: https://doi.org/10.1039/c7pp00333a
DOI: 10.1039/c7pp00333a
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